Wooden walls of traditional stilted buildings of Miao Nationality show outstanding regional characteristics. Taking the well-preserved traditional stilted buildings in Xijiang Miao Village for example, this paper focu...Wooden walls of traditional stilted buildings of Miao Nationality show outstanding regional characteristics. Taking the well-preserved traditional stilted buildings in Xijiang Miao Village for example, this paper focused on the construction units of the wooden wall, and the hierarchy of wooden wall construction, concluded spatial forms of the wooden wall, in order to explore the indigenous construction culture in the wooden wall system, protect and inherit the culture; seek for the ways of expressing national and regional characteristics in the modern architectural designs of relevant cultural regions.展开更多
THE Tujia people live in the Wuling Mountains, straddling the borders of Hunan, Hubei, and Guizhou provinces and Chongqing Municipality. As for the most representative traditional dwellings of the ethnic group, the di...THE Tujia people live in the Wuling Mountains, straddling the borders of Hunan, Hubei, and Guizhou provinces and Chongqing Municipality. As for the most representative traditional dwellings of the ethnic group, the distinction belongs to the stilted building.展开更多
This paper describes and analyzes the stilted buildings of the Tujia people (an ethnic group living in China's Mainland), a distinctive building style unique to them, from the perspectives of site selection, spati...This paper describes and analyzes the stilted buildings of the Tujia people (an ethnic group living in China's Mainland), a distinctive building style unique to them, from the perspectives of site selection, spatial layout, construction techniques, and cultural inheritance. The cluster of stilted buildings (Diaojiao Lou in Mandarin Pinyin) in the Pengjia Village (meaning most of the villagers share the surname of Peng) is presented as a case study in this paper. The paper makes a case for their preservation as authentic carriers of the Tujia people’s cultural history, which is quickly disappearing due to development pressures. Three preservation strategies are discussed to meet this preservation goal. The first is to provide a detail analysis of the construction language to guarantee authenticity in the documentation, preservation and restoration processes of the stilted buildings. The second is to keep alive the expert knowledge and skill of traditional artisans by involving them in the construction of new structures using diaojiaolou techniques. The third strategy is to encourage local people to “dress-up” discordant buildings constructed mid to late 20th century with well-mannered facades using traditional details such as suspension columns, shuaqi, and six-panel and bang doors. Taking as a whole, these strategies are presented to help local residents, preservation experts, developers and policy makers sustain the irreplaceable cultural heritage and economic independence of the Tujia people.展开更多
The stilted buildings of Tujia nationality spread over the adjacent mountain areas of Hunan, Hubei, Guizhou and Chongqing belong to the typical pile-dwelling architecture in southern China. Stilted buildings are not o...The stilted buildings of Tujia nationality spread over the adjacent mountain areas of Hunan, Hubei, Guizhou and Chongqing belong to the typical pile-dwelling architecture in southern China. Stilted buildings are not only a typical residential building style of the Tujia people, and they are also a materialized symbol of Tujia culture. For thousands of years, Tujia people have taken materials from the local area and built buildings in the mountains, emphasizing the harmony between man and nature. They have also integrated their pray for happiness and peace, yearning for a good life, and customary rituals of praying for happiness into the construction process of the stilted buildings. Thus, unique building skills of stilted buildings of Tujia nationality are formed. Under the impact of modern industrial civilization, the inheritance of building skills of stilted buildings of Tujia nationality has gradually entered an embarrassing situation. Therefore, they have been included in the list of intangible cultural heritage and become the object of protection. In the context of the protection of intangible cultural heritage, re-recognizing the building skills of stilted buildings of Tujia nationality plays an important role in protecting and promoting the national traditional culture and has an unignorable reference value for the design of modern residential landscapes.展开更多
基金Sponsored by Guizhou Provincial Foundation of Science and Technology(QKHLH20147393)
文摘Wooden walls of traditional stilted buildings of Miao Nationality show outstanding regional characteristics. Taking the well-preserved traditional stilted buildings in Xijiang Miao Village for example, this paper focused on the construction units of the wooden wall, and the hierarchy of wooden wall construction, concluded spatial forms of the wooden wall, in order to explore the indigenous construction culture in the wooden wall system, protect and inherit the culture; seek for the ways of expressing national and regional characteristics in the modern architectural designs of relevant cultural regions.
文摘THE Tujia people live in the Wuling Mountains, straddling the borders of Hunan, Hubei, and Guizhou provinces and Chongqing Municipality. As for the most representative traditional dwellings of the ethnic group, the distinction belongs to the stilted building.
文摘This paper describes and analyzes the stilted buildings of the Tujia people (an ethnic group living in China's Mainland), a distinctive building style unique to them, from the perspectives of site selection, spatial layout, construction techniques, and cultural inheritance. The cluster of stilted buildings (Diaojiao Lou in Mandarin Pinyin) in the Pengjia Village (meaning most of the villagers share the surname of Peng) is presented as a case study in this paper. The paper makes a case for their preservation as authentic carriers of the Tujia people’s cultural history, which is quickly disappearing due to development pressures. Three preservation strategies are discussed to meet this preservation goal. The first is to provide a detail analysis of the construction language to guarantee authenticity in the documentation, preservation and restoration processes of the stilted buildings. The second is to keep alive the expert knowledge and skill of traditional artisans by involving them in the construction of new structures using diaojiaolou techniques. The third strategy is to encourage local people to “dress-up” discordant buildings constructed mid to late 20th century with well-mannered facades using traditional details such as suspension columns, shuaqi, and six-panel and bang doors. Taking as a whole, these strategies are presented to help local residents, preservation experts, developers and policy makers sustain the irreplaceable cultural heritage and economic independence of the Tujia people.
基金Sponsored by Excellent Yong and Middle-aged Science and Technology Innovation Team Plan Project for Higher Learning in Hubei Province(T201613)
文摘The stilted buildings of Tujia nationality spread over the adjacent mountain areas of Hunan, Hubei, Guizhou and Chongqing belong to the typical pile-dwelling architecture in southern China. Stilted buildings are not only a typical residential building style of the Tujia people, and they are also a materialized symbol of Tujia culture. For thousands of years, Tujia people have taken materials from the local area and built buildings in the mountains, emphasizing the harmony between man and nature. They have also integrated their pray for happiness and peace, yearning for a good life, and customary rituals of praying for happiness into the construction process of the stilted buildings. Thus, unique building skills of stilted buildings of Tujia nationality are formed. Under the impact of modern industrial civilization, the inheritance of building skills of stilted buildings of Tujia nationality has gradually entered an embarrassing situation. Therefore, they have been included in the list of intangible cultural heritage and become the object of protection. In the context of the protection of intangible cultural heritage, re-recognizing the building skills of stilted buildings of Tujia nationality plays an important role in protecting and promoting the national traditional culture and has an unignorable reference value for the design of modern residential landscapes.
